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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25
DALLAS NOKrHwEsrERN.
DALLAS EFFORT 10 REACH TIE NORTH
WEST AND PANHANDLE.



DALLAS, TEX, May lG.-I notice in yes
/ terday's issue of the News q communica-
ton over the Signature of General George
+. Afford, entitled "a Coal and Iron Rail
road Company" II is replete wiki data
| of the grayest significance 70 Dallas, ana
should receive the most earnest and the
prCmpfest attention of every well-Wisher
Of this city. The matter becomes more
intensely and painfully grave il view
Of the fact that our active and
ever-alert rival on our west is
now eager TO wrench from cur GRASP
yet another important railroad to her
great advantages and our most serious
detTiment. Ouly the other day and the
Fort rejOiCed ct Texarkana over our futile
Efforts and her own victory. We
swallowed the untoWsrd defeat, and row
quick upon its heels she is about 10 trip
US up GGain BY bcsrdiug US IN our own
den. For on yesterday came PROPOSE
ton from some OF h-r leading citizens
urging that they desire to negotiate for
the construction Of the road TO Archer
and through the coal and iron and copper
fields and rich agricultural section
between.
There is d.nger, there is disaster in
this to Dallas. This one step alone in
the line of her policy will not only make
her to the world the undOubted, the ad-
mitted railway center Of Texas, not only
tue conceded pluckiest city OF the south,
but what Is more, the great manufact-
uring city Of the state, soon TO develop
into q second Atlanta, ChGtta-
nOoga or q Birmingham, while Dal-
las will be relegated 10 the rear. !
Possessing the best of water in abund-
ance, cheap and ample fuel is the only
other thing needed to swell her popula- /
ton and send the life-bloOd pulsiug |
through the veins of thousands of ne
Chanics aud manufacturing workers. |
This is what the IRON and Cos! road |
from the FORT to Archer means, for it Will |
supply her with the low priced coal |
which monopoly now furnishes TO /
Dallas at such high figures. !
1t will bring to her pay-rolls and ell thai r
this implies, to the WCful injury of DIAL
las.
Add vet another thing-it will bring 10
her still another road, the Chicago and
Rock Island. Thus, within sixty days,
she will have snatched from as three
railways, all of which Dallas might have
mad, were we but one-hglf as alive. AID
Dallas rests upon her oars in ner self
assumption of perfected greatness and
beauty.
Are our business men, are our real es-
tate owners awake to the situation? For
the mere loan or advance of 500, 900 or
$500, 600 mot donation, but al advance,
Dallas can place herself in quick and dt-
rect communicated, through a tier of
splendid counties, with two great trunk
lines TO meet in the northwest and secure
to us the manifold agricultural products,
the mineral wealth and the much needed
fuel.
Can it be possible that having built
good fence about our premises we shall
refuse TO 90 TO the little expense of put
ting up gate 10 secure what our fencing
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

operations were intended to preserve, and
which will be so damaged and ravaged
for the lack Of it F.? And see what the
proposition as put ny General Afford pro-
poses to the subsCr Ders to the stock and
| to the citizen. He says:
The cost Of construction and equipment
with roll Eg stock will be not exceeding
$4,000 per mile, equal to, say 81 ,250, 900.
(Ihere are three q derent reliable con-
tractors who will enter into Il contract TO
deliver the complete road, fully equipped,
for this sum The right of way for the
entire distance wiz De donated, IN addi-
ton TO which it is expected that the city
OF Dallas, Grapevine, Roanoke ana DeCs-
tur Will donate in Cas-, - .1~, e.. ~
least $4,000 Between Decatur iii
Archer City, distance of seventy miles
through as fine COur ry as there is or this
continent, the people viii donate % per
cent. of their lands for a distance of five
miles on each side OF the road making
$4,000 acres, which, on the completion
Of the road, will certainly be worth at
least $40 per acre, equal to 81 ,250, 900.
There will be about twelve new towns,
some small, but others very impor-
tant, particularly those established
at the cal and iron mines along
the road, in which town lots averaging at
least $4,000 each town can be sold,
5240,000. The total value of subsidies
0btsined will be 81 $780, 900. The owners
of tue COAL iron and copper deposits
along the line Of road, now yalueless for
want Of transportation, will donate st
least One-fourth and in many instances
one-thi-d of their property to the road
The value of the SUBSIDY in dollars
cannot be computed, but in sddi-
ton to it's intrinsic value the
product of the mines will afford profta-
bic employment to thousands of laborers
and large and increasing traffic to the
railway. 1t is safe to assume that the
traffic over this railway in coal, iron, cop
per, cattle, horses, hogs, sheep, wool, cot |
ton, corn, wheat and other cereals, hay, |
fencing wire, agricultural implements
machinery, lumber and general merchsn-
disc will be so great that no single-track |
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

railway in the state can supply rolling
stock sufficient to accommodate it
Hence, it cannot fail 20 pay large
dividend to its stockholders. IN this
estimate i have made no calculation of
subsidies in lands and town lots to be
obtained between Dallas and Decatur, &
distance Of fifty-five miles, nor o. lands to
be obtained between Decatur and Archer
City, distance of seventy miles, outside
of the 1ive-mile limit, which is reasonable
to assume will amount to 8 sum quite
sufficient to psy for any right Of way
which would not be donated, and TO pay
for surveying, cost of charter, Office and
all other preliminary expenses.
Can the property owners Of Dallas,
therefore, hesitate to take hold of this
enterprise, or will they throw it away,
yea, worse, surrender it to another city?
Let US awake before it is too late. Let
meeting be at once called to organize and
inaugurate this mOmentous matter, and
if this or that existing proposition does
not suit, let frank and fearless discussion
evolve one that will. But by eli m, IS
let something be done, and that sht
speedily. JOHN +. ELLIQ +.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

81 see that you can get government
laud free in the west" observed the i'm
pecunious boarder at the breakfast table.
II think I'll go there and settle" Mrs.
HsrdtRck-Better settle here first,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

ave will now sing the three hundred
and twenty-ninth hymn" said the minis
ter at the close of e pathetic funeral
sermon. tfIt was favorite with the re-
malns,n
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

Tortoise, eagles, parrots, crocodlIes,
crows and swans live to be 100 years old;
carp and pike, from 100 to $50, and the
elephant $50 to 200 years.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

Twe1ty-four per cent Of Norway is for
est.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

the
eCount
Ihescco lite have eeno organized
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

Seven burglars made quiet rend.ez-
vous OF the Ssndusky pest house.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28
IDAHO NEWS.

Cassia County Times, May 20.
The stables, corrals and a large
number of farming utensils on the
ranch Of G.. A. Jensen were de-
stroyed by fire on last Monday.
The owners of the Albion mine
are considerably elated over a new
discovery of ore, better than has
yet been taken out. Some of ii
assays $500.
Chris Humble, Texas cowboy,
while drunk, went to the store OF
E. Conant and finding the proprie-
tor absent abused Mrs. Conant
scandalously and beat an old man
named Charles Parke over the head
for interfering. A warrant was
sworn out for his arrest and he
skulked off into the willows to
avoid arrest.
Idaho Avalanche. May q.
Paul s. Gordon, one Of the early
residents of Idaho, met with a
shocking death at Jordan valley,
Oregon, on Sunday last. He was
thrown frDm q blackboard and
and his left foot caught in
one of the springs. Tho team ran
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

for FIVE miles and the mangled,
lifeless body of the unfortunate
man was discovered still fast to the
vehicle by the parties stopping the
run away horses.
Shoshone Journal. May q.
The pay car was in town Thurs
day and dispersed checks among
the railroad employees. 1t was the
best pay day Shoshone has wit
messed for several months.
U. S. Grant Post. No. 81. G. A. R.
has received a stand of arms from
Governor Stevenson.
Range and Valley, May 20.
The road between Rocky Bar
and Junction Bar has been opened
up but will have to be repaired be-
fore it is safe for heavy loaded
wagons to pass over it.
e. c. eileen is erecting a wind
mill for raising water out of Snake
River on his ranch near Glenn's
Ferry.
Blackfoot Reporter. May 20.
A special grand jury has been
summoned to consider the Woods
murder. An indictment was found
agaist the brutal wife murderer,
and being arrained Woods took
the statutory time to plead. The
jury was discharged.
Blackioot needs fire company
and the Reporter urges that the
necessary steps be taken to protect
the town in case of a fire.
Nevada Notes.
DR.. Louis Terry, an old resident
of Elko, Nevada, died at that place
ON the 18th inst.
Senator Stewart has returned
from his Idaho trip and is now at
Carson. He has concluded that
the majority of people in North
Idaho prefer annexation to Wash
ington territory rather than Mon
tana.
Charles F. Meyers, treasurer OF
Lincoln county, was found dead
reclining in chair, in his Office on
the morning of the 10Th. Death
was caused by rheumatism of the
heart.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

The East Oregonian of May 18th
says some changes were made last
Friday in the boundaries of the d.
unfinished Indian reservation. The
line will not touch Wild Horse at
all this side of a point about three
miles beyond Centerville. From
this point it runs west and south,
by a zigzag course, being all the
way down from half a mile to two
or three miles distant from Horse
creek. Crossing the Umatilla
about half way between pendleton
and the agency it extends south
ward three or four miles, leaving
the Mckay country and consid-
cradle strip this side extending to
thamountains to be sold, and also
a strip all along White Horse
creek. The Indians retain the
choicest part of the reservation, as
to quality of land, but most Of that
to be sold is very fertile and near
shipping points. The portion set
apart for the Indians will soon be
leased or rented out on shares to
white men. It is hardly probable
that the survey, appraisement and
advertising will all be done before
late next fall or winter, in which
case the sale will not take place be-
fore next spring.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

The Cass!a County Times sug-
gests the propriety Of organizing a
press association in Idaho and
thinks that a meeting with such
purpose in view should be held at
Shoshone Falls this summer. The
Times justly claims that something
ought to be done to protect the
press of Idaho against cheap for
eign advertising, and the formation
of 3 press association it thinks will
correct this evil. The proposition
of the Times is a good one as far as
it goes, but the formation of press
association will not supply the
remedy. So long as the publishers
of papers in the territory content
themselves with patent outsides,
filled with stale reading matter and
Job lot advertisements just SO long
will the vendors of patent nostrulns,
cure alls, and other general adver-
tises take advantage of the oppor-
tunity. There is no sense or reason
in publishing a paper OH the half
she'll" The excuse is made that
readers demand a large amount OF
reading matter, but it is q lame
one. Another thing, there is no
law compelling a paper to accept
business that is Improbable. What
10 more necessary than a press as
sociation ID > Law making only such
pspers that are entirely printed
within the county Of publication. Z
Me<ium for legal advertising. But
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

Since the commencement of its
sessions the interstate commission
has apparently devoted its whole
attention to the question of long
and short hauls, while the railroads
have quietly increased their charges
and the report of earnings shows
such an increase that stocks are
booming" in the eastern markets.
1t is about time that the commits
sion paid some little attention to
sections of the act which require
that ''all charges shall be reasona-
BILE and just" and which declare
that every unjust and unreasona-
bic charge is prohibited and shall
be unlawful" This provision of the
law should not be overlooked any
longer. The commission should
compel reduction of freight and
passenger tariff rates over the roads,
particularly over the Union Pacific
system. The reduction made last
January in passenger rates to five
cents mile shows a net gain in
receipts from such source over cor
responding periods prior to the re-
duction. Five cents q mile is still
too high. 1t should not he higher
than three cents, and a cutting
down to one-half of the present
charge for travel would be nearer
right. The increase of travel would
be such that under the same run
ming expense the receipts would be
far in excess of the present. There
is but little use of appealing to the
legislature as the Union Pacific
pulls the string that controls the
action ola majority of the members.
a direct appeal to the interstate
commission is the only way open.
The railroad companies have kept
the commission busy on the long
and short haul calls for the sus-
pension of section 4, and it should
now attend to the call of the peo-
pie for enforcement of other parts
of the acts. AS the Oregonian we'll
puts it, "What the people want to
know is this, namely, when their
turn is to come"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

The Oregonian commenting upon
the Stewart territory humiliation
scheme, says: To join Southern
Idaho to Nevada would be the mar
riage of health to paralysis and
decay. Nevada never ought to have
been a state. She is to-day moth
ing but 4 dceerted mining camp
inhabited by a few thousand men,
and yet 2 presidential election, as
has been repeatedly pointed out,
may be decided by the three elect
oral votes Of this rotten borough.
It is not likely that the young blood
Of Idaho would restore Nevada to
health.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28
San Francisco Prices.
C0MSTOCK & CLARK
NOTICE..
Sealed Proposals for Building
Of School House.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ sealed proposals will be received up To
the hour OF II, NJ. Saturday. May 18th. at
the First National Bank of ketchum. in
the town of Ketchum, by the Clerk of the
Board of School Trustees of School District
No. 6, for building brick school house. in
said town of ketchum, in accordance with
the plans and specifications furnished by
+. NJ. Ellis, architect of Omaha. Ncb. Said
plans and specifications will bc exhibited
BY the Clerk of the Board To all those de-
sirous of bidding on said contract. Bid
ders will specify the sum total for which
thew will construct said building according
to plans and specifications. All proposals
offered shall be accompanied by bond In
the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars. with
condition that the bidder will faithfully
carry out the terms Of his bid. signed 10y
the bidder and two or moro good and suf-
ricient sureties, VINO shall justify before an
officer competent lo administer oaths in the
full amount aforesaid over and above all
statutory exemptions.
The Board of Trustees Of said school
district reserve the right To reject any and
all bids.
T.. J. CowLEy. Jr..
Gro NJ. Snow. Trustees.
FRED. w. GooptNc,l
Dated. Ketchum. May IA, 1887.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

there are other reasons prevailing
that favor the organization of the
Idaho press, not the least being
that of bringing publishers in
closer and more friendly relations
with each other, and if an organi-
cation could be effected 40 as to in
clude all the papers, it would be q
very proper move.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28
DECORATION DAY.

MONDAY next Will De decoration
Day. With almost the expiring
breath of spring, borne on the fra
grant winds of early summers
balmy breezes, the day comes to us
reminder of daring deeds per-
formed; of valorous hearts that
shed life's current bravely upon a
country's altar; of glorious victor
les won and defeats sustained, and
of mourning households and tear
stained faces of wives and daugh-
tiers, sweethearts and sisters, who
mourned the coming not of dear
ones that fell in din of battle or
victims to the ravages of disease.
At first devoted exclusively to the
honor Of patriotic dead, Decoration
day was looked upon with much
disfavor by many, as tendency to
revive the passions of the war just
closed, but year by year its observ-
ance has become more general un-
til now not only are the graves of
fallen heroes bedecked with bright
garlands of flowers, but the silent
tombs of other honored dead are
strewn with floral mementoes by
those who cherish the memory of
loved ones that have gone before.
So general has this beautiful GUS
tom become that in most of the
states the Both of May has been
specially set aside as legal holt
day to be devoted to the decoration
of the graves of the silent dead.
Throughout the entire country the
day is well observed. In far off
Alaska, where shines the midnight
sun and winters skies are made
resplendent with aurorean fanta-
sizes; and the emerald glades of an
ever-sunny south, where graceful
bannerets wave gently to and fro
in soft summers winds; eastward
to the rQck-ribbed Atlantic coast,
where the flashing waves echo the
mutterings of approaching storms,
and far toward the setting sun be-
yOnd the mountain chains and
peaks crested with an eternal snow,
where great forests of pine seem to
ever chant requium to the dead.
to the placid waters of the Pacific
that gently lave the sandy beaches
marking the western confines OF
our country, thousands upon thous-
ands will gather on Monday next
to do honor to the cherished dead.
Conspicuous in this observance
will be the Grand Army of the Re-
public. It's ranks grow thinner
with the passing years, and hardly
day passes but one or more an
swers the summons and go 10 swelI
the shadowy throng of comrades,
at rest upon their arms, waiting
the shrill bugle notes sounding the
final reveille to arouse them from
their slumbers. Here in Ketchum
no preparations have been made to
observe the day, the members of
the Grand Army going to HALEY
to take part in the memorial SER
vice there. In our little cemetery
lie the bodies of three that in life
answered the country's call, and
escaping the dangers of the battle
field met death in the quiet pur-
suits of peaceful life. These vet
Grams of the civil war are Robert +.
Raine, Benjamin Baywater and
John Harbidge, two of whom died
last winter. Would it not be we'll
that their graves be strewn with
the fragrant wild flowers that now
are putting forth their blooms. No
soldiers grave should be left neg
lected upon Decoration Day where
it is possible to adorn the same
and follow out the custom now
national in its observance.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

LAND OFFICE AT HALEY, IDAHO,
Nav "a 1897

AANU OFEICE AT NAtLEY, IDAHO, I
May q, 1887.
I, Edward J. Cowley, Jr.. Of Ketchum,
Idaho, who made Town Lot entry No. IA
for the Lot 8 Block 3 and Lot Block IS
Ketchum Townsite, do hereby give notice
of my intention to make supplemental final
above described. and that expect to prove
my residence and cultivation before the
Register and Receiver at HALEY, Idaho, on
July s. 1857, by two Of the following wit.
Peter Weber. ]. Ottenheimcr and Geo
n. Snow, Of Ketchum, Idaho, and W. W.
Yeates Of HALEY. Idaho.
4. J. COWLEY. Ja.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

THE San Francisco Examiner and
Chronicle now run fast trains out
of that city to important towns for
u distance of $50 miles. The trains
leave at 4 o'clock in the morning
and travel at a speed of mile in
less than one minute.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

THE latest triumph of Georgia
inventive genius is known as the
prohibition demiiohn. 1t is made
in the shape of a kerosene can and
incased in wood, and in its general
appearance is one of the most un-
assuming and harmless looking
pieces of household enginery that
WIS ever borne meekly from the
back room of drug store.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

Mrs. GRANT has SO far received
1894 ,459 SO as her share of the
profits on the sale Of Gen. Grants
Memoirs. The financial success of
the book is unprecedented in the
history of literature.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

A BONANZA discovery has been
made in Unga island, Alaska. II
is equal to the great Comstock, the
ledge being of immense length and
width. Specimens of surprising
richness were sent to SanFranciscO
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

THE earnings of a number of the
principal railroads of the country
are reported to have been about
three million dollars more for the
past month than the April average,
which is due to higher charges un-
der the interstate law.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28
QUEEN NIcIORIA's salary is f3S5

QUEEN VIcToRIA's salary is 1885,
600, or nearly two million dollars
per year. On June 21st she will
have drawn that salary for fifty
years, or about $96,OOO,OOO. This
sum is simply what is paid to the
queen, exclusive Of what the mem
bers of the royal family and their
establishments have received. Dur
ing the same time the total sum
paid to all our presidents has only
amounted to 81 $685. 900.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

Mrs. CLEVELAND has been form
ally thanked by New York Chris
tian Temperance Union for having
drank cold water at a diplomatic
dinner, but the respected head of
the nation still takes an occasional
hOrsehy in his.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

THE story that General Posey
was son of General Washington
is followed by another to the effect
that Cornplanter, a remarkable
half-breed chief of the Wyandottes,
was also a son of Washington, the
mother being a beautiful Wvan-
dotte queen. If this continues
Washington will be set up as in
fact the father of his country.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28
FOR SALE,

The material of the late Ketchum Bulletin
including an Army Press, l9x25 inches in.
side chase; imposing stone, 27x72 inches
about $50 pounds of Nonpareil. $50 pounds
of Brewer and ten or fifteen fonts of dis.
play letter, composing sticks, galleys, in
fact complete outfit.
For further particulars address
KErcHUM KEYSTONE,
Ketchum, Idaho.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

LAST Saturday night, Butte City,
Montana, INDUCED in $4,000 fire.
An entire block of buildings was
DESTROYED.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

THE Chronicle Bulletin Call libel
suit has ended with verdict in
favor of the Chronicle, the jury re-
turning a verdict of one dollar
damages against the owner, Mike
lie Young. The costs Of the suit
about &2,G0O-will fall on the Bull
letin-Call owners. A majority of
the jury were at first in favor of the
Chronicle and a compromise on
the above verdict was agreed upon.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-28

THE geographical center of the
United States, including Alaska, is
found to be in the Pacific ocean,
about 125 miles little south of
west of Cape Flattery.